Quick Facts About Tim Berners-Lee
- Born
- June 8, 1955
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Computer Scientist
- Notable works
- Weaving the Web
- Known for
- World Wide Web, HTTP, HTML, URL, Semantic Web
About Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
honorary doctorate of the Open University
MacArthur Fellows Program
Millennium Technology Prize
W. Wallace McDowell Award
Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
Royal Designer for Industry
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
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Albert Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Bodley Medal
Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Internet Hall of Fame
honorary doctorate of Lancaster University
honorary doctorate of the University Polytechnic of Madrid
Obedience Award
Computer History Museum Fellow
Axel Springer Award
honorary doctor of Harvard University
Internet Archive Hero award
honorary doctor of the Open University of Catalonia
Paul Evan Peters Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
OII Lifetime Achievement Award
honorary doctor of Yale University
President's Medal
Mountbatten Medal
Sir Frank Whittle Medal
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Eduard-Rhein Technology Award
Fellow of the Royal Society
Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
ACM Fellow
Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class
Honorary doctor of the University of Liège
IEEE Maxwell Award
EFF Award
Order of Merit
Worthy of the City
Turing Award
Marconi Prize
Prix Ars Electronica
Quadriga
Royal Medal
Japan Prize
ACM Software System Award
Charles Stark Draper Prize
Lovelace Medal
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